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I agree. I expressed myself badly. PFOA is indeed all over the place. It's a very powerful surfactant.
In terms of Teflon off gassing, PFOA is low. should perhaps have drawn attention earlier to the fact thats it's only one of a multitude of breakdown products from the thermal degradation of PTFE, some of which are not pleasant.
Strikes me as best practice to avoid where possible is all.
Apologies, it's not my intention to offend. I'm a fairly plain and undiplomatic type. Sometimes I forget to apply my people filter to what I say and write.
Appreciated. Will try a lower heat again tomorrow morning.
I bought a ceramic pan from Asda a while back. Coating non-stickiness didn't last long at all. One burnining episode and it was screwed.
Best thing about stainless pans is no matter how badly you burn the pan you can always use sandpaper to sand the carbon off. Well - almost always - this got recycled:
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You made your own little avian Han Solo!
Not yet proven. Cancers from such stuff turn up decades later. When it comes to carcinogens, trace levels is all that's needed to mutate a few cells. Statistically low yes, but the risk is there.
Do you know how many substances are in the International Agency for Research on Cancer's "probably not carcinogenic to humans" (group 4) category?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_4_carcinogens
I'll be buying a new frying pan soon, I will probably avoid PTFE because there are better around and I don't like the low temperature limit but I still have some old ones that get used. PFOA free is fairly common these days.
And I cook scrambled eggs in a plain old stainless steel pan and they don't stick. (OK, it's 3-ply because straight up stainless isn't very STW).
I know.. it's so sad, those little bones in there.. the promise of delicious soup destroyed, blackened, scorched..
grumpysculler - Member
PFOA free is fairly common these days.
Apparently they just use other PFAs and no proof they are any better or worse.
Anyway, carcinogen or not, other health effects are concerning.
Though we're all screwed anyway it seems as most of us have PFOAs in our bloodstream from all kinds of sources. Teflon being very minor source.